Worldly Concern

Famous quotes containing the words worldly and/or concern:

    “A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)